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What if President Obama was the star of his own reality show like MTV's "The City?" Watch NEWSWEEK's original series to find out.

Barack Obama was living the dream life in Chicago when he risked it all for the chance to be president. After he won, his frenemies joined Team Obama and Washington rejoiced. But he soon found out that governing is like, really hard.
Barack was elected to bring change to the Beltway. Turns out some of his nominees didn't get the memo. Wow, D.C. is looking a lot like Drama Central.
Drama follows the new prez on a road trip, the press gets super serious and bipartisanship is, like, so last season.
Hillary is back in the spotlight, y'all.  She and a Samsonite full of pantsuits make their way overseas to pageant-wave and make nice with world leaders.
The hosts of MTV's The City: The After Show interview Barack, the star of The District. Hilarity ensues.
Sometimes it seems like Barack just can't get a break - especially when John gets all mavericky and a loud mouth named Rush offers up a challenge.
Team Barack has no luck signing a budget minus the pork projects and word on the street is the government is facing a trillion-dollar deficit. More money, more probs, for sure.
Congress is super PO'd about AIG's bonuses and Barack heads to the Hollywood Hills to soak up the rays, sorta.

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  • Posted By: GayleAlstrom @ 02/13/2009 9:19:05 AM

    Very funny. Can't wait for episode 3. Since I've never seen "the City" it's hard for me to make suggestions for future episodes.

  • Posted By: ReasonWisdomAndPeace @ 02/12/2009 6:28:35 PM

    Bad grammar in the headline... should be "What if President Obama were..."

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